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Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 1:03 pm
by damo666
Octavious wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:50 pm
Did he die in the West?
(and for the sake of clarity let's define the West as the 1st World US aligned nations prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991)
Yes
Three questions remain
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 1:23 pm
by supi13
Oh. So his mother tongue was a Slavic language but he died in the West.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 1:25 pm
by supi13
Was he a painter or a musician (including a music composer)?
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 1:34 pm
by damo666
supi13 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 1:25 pm
Was he a painter or a musician (including a music composer)?
Yes
Two left
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 1:41 pm
by supi13
1. Real person
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Died after Jan 1, 1900
5. Not Anglo-Saxon or of an Anglo-Saxon nation
6. Eurasian
7. Not significantly involved in WWII
8. Not East Asian or from a member country of ASEAN
9. Asian, Russian, Soviet, Eastern European, Turkic, Cypriot or Greek
10. Born before Jan 1, 1930
11. Not Levantine (excluding Cyprus), Arabian, Mesopotamian, Iranian, Afghan, South Asian or Himalayan
12. Russian, Soviet, or Eastern European
13. Not a politician, diplomat, religious minister, philosopher, scientist or engineer.
14. Was a painter, author, musician or other non-acting/film artist
15. His mother tongue a Slavic language
16. Has never served in the military.
17. Died in the West (the US-aligned countries)
18. A painter or a musician (including a music composer)
NOT:
Gandhi
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 1:49 pm
by supi13
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:01 pm
by damo666
No
ONE left
Hint/clarification - he did compose music but composition or playing an instrument is not what you would primarily associate with this person.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:09 pm
by JECE
Not using up the last question here, but maybe he was some sort of cosmonaut or chess player who defected.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:20 pm
by Foxcastle
My free shot: is it Marc Chagall?
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:21 pm
by Foxcastle
Foxcastle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:20 pm
My free shot: is it Marc Chagall?
CANCEL THAT, I didn't see the composer clue
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:25 pm
by Kakarroto
Free guess: was it Georgi Markov? The one assassinated via umbrella?
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:27 pm
by supi13
damo666 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:01 pm
No
ONE left
Hint/clarification - he did compose music but composition or playing an instrument is not what you would primarily associate with this person.
But he WAS a painter or musician by profession, right? If he was e.g. a journalist who played piano as a hobby, or occasionally composed music, you would have answered NO to q. 18, right? (I think you should answer no in that case.) Please answer this comment only if you intend not to count it as an official question - it is not a new question, just a request for clarification about a previous one.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:30 pm
by damo666
supi13 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:27 pm
damo666 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:01 pm
No
ONE left
Hint/clarification - he did compose music but composition or playing an instrument is not what you would primarily associate with this person.
But he WAS a painter or musician by profession, right? If he was e.g. a journalist who played piano as a hobby, or occasionally composed music, you would have answered NO to q. 18, right? (I think you should answer no in that case.) Please answer this comment only if you intend not to count it as an official question - it is not a new question, just a request for clarification about a previous one.
He is strongly and professionally associated with music and has composed but composition is not for what he is remembered.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:34 pm
by supi13
Free guess: is it Arthur Rubinstein?
(btw, if we had some more questions, I would ask if he was Jewish, or at least 50% Jewish)
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:34 pm
by damo666
Foxcastle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:21 pm
Foxcastle wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:20 pm
My free shot: is it Marc Chagall?
CANCEL THAT, I didn't see the composer clue
Nice guess apart from where he doesn't fit.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:38 pm
by Foxcastle
supi13 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:34 pm
Free guess: is it Arthur Rubinstein?
(btw, if we had some more questions, I would ask if he was Jewish, or at least 50% Jewish)
I feel like "Russian or soviet artist who is buried in the West" is like 90% likely to be Jewish...
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:39 pm
by damo666
Kakarroto wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:25 pm
Free guess: was it Georgi Markov? The one assassinated via umbrella?
No. Did he compose any music?
Interestingly a week after the incident I was walking near Bush House in Aldwych central London (I was studying at King's College London) and was asked by the police had I noticed anything strange the previous week. I hadn't.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:42 pm
by damo666
supi13 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:34 pm
Free guess: is it Arthur Rubinstein?
(btw, if we had some more questions, I would ask if he was Jewish, or at least 50% Jewish)
Obviously not. I won't count.
I said not known for playing a musical instrument!
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:44 pm
by supi13
ah, right, sorry.
Re: Twenty Questions game 79
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:45 pm
by supi13
Ok, if he is strongly and professionally associated with music but he is not primarily known for:
- composition
- playing an instrument
then maybe he's a vocalist? (Not an official question)